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  • From: "L. J. Swain" <larry.swain AT wmich.edu>
  • To: Kata Markon <gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Gospel Creation
  • Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:09:29 -0500




JFAlward AT aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/18/01 8:26:00 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> gwyoung AT morgan.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>
> << Hudson Burton wrote;
>
> > ...Luke and John go to great pains to establish their gospels as factual
> > (Luke i.1) and as being "real" (Jn xix.35). They are clearly
> > concerned that the gospel(s) might be read as nothing more than myth.
>
> This presumes that a first century audience might 'naturally' have read the
> gospel narratives as 'myth.' Do Luke and John betray a covert anxiety to
> ward off what the reading conventions of their gospels might naturally
> invoke?
>
> G. Young
> >>
> ================
> That's an excellent point, George. Peter, too, worried that people
> naturally
> supposed that what he wrote was fiction:
>
> "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto
> you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitness of
> his
> majesty." (2 Peter 1:16)
>
> In other words, Peter swears that it's not true what people have been saying
> about the gospels--that they're fables.
>

I'm not sure that that was the author's point in 2 Peter. Is he defending the
gospels, or is he maligning the works of other "Christian", Jewish, and pagan
religions? The context seems to me to suggest the latter.

Larry Swain





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